yemmyse:

when did complacency become a virture?

bilymuse:

watin concern Mallam Bahushe with hustling, margarine no be dog food
To the average hausa man the world start and end in the north. They are so blinded by their ignorance that they believe God is an hausa man. Their blind arrogance is reflected in the plate number of Sokoto state, " the right to rule".

naijaking1:

People that used the Tivs, Nupes, and Yorubas to win the civil war, succeeded in changing the natural demographics of Nigeria by manipulating the census, forcing many southerners into self imposed economic/political exile; and you still think they are blinded by ignorance? Think again, maybe its you and me(southerners) who are ignorant and stupid.

littlekim:

@Naijaking

Wisdom is a funny thing, it often show up in funny unexpected places. It just showed up in your post. Keep it up (hopefully).

For a southern, u re extremely bright.

littlekim:

@Naijaking
Wisdom is a funny thing, it often show up in funny unexpected places. It just showed up in your post. Keep it up (hopefully).
For a southern, u re extremely bright.

bilymuse:

watin concern Mallam Bahushe with hustling, margarine no be dog food
To the average hausa man the world start and end in the north. They are so blinded by their ignorance that they believe God is an hausa man. Their blind arrogance is reflected in the plate number of Sokoto state, " the right to rule".

coolier:

You're absolutely right no hausa man would go hustle abroad not because 'margarine no be dog food' but because our 'monkey dey work their baboon they chop'. They do go abroad and you need to see the way their young men spend while there. I had come accross two in a high brow shop in London once and they had this huge pile of travellers cheques(which would not be less than ten thousand pounds). They wanted to pay and could not decipher which is which. I had to come in when I realised they had Nigerian passports, took the whole lot from them(they did not even think twice before handing it to me), counted out their bill which ran into thousands, paid the cashier and hand them the remaining.

nuzo:

I do not hope to see you in any thread criticizing the Hausa/fulani for misappropriating your oil money, since you are now their guide on how to spend the money.

coolier:

Was only helping a fellow Nigerian. Pardon me!

yemmyse:

Oh my God!

Thinking about it, these guys don't export anything not even groundnut.

debosky:

Other things get exported as well - Dates, Ginger, Sesame Seeds and other farm produce.

Of what inherent benefit has all the 'hustling abroad' been to southerners? Ok you have relations abroad you can stay with, you are more 'exposed'. But has that solved our problems? No

I'D rather be a[b] content [/b] farmer with 2 cows and a reasonably peaceful existence than some guy queuing up at embassies all day trying to go out to 'hustle'.

I guess in the end, its all a matter of perspective and personal aspiration. Hustling abroad may be a thing of[b] pride [/b] to you, but maybe not to them.

debosky:

Other things get exported as well - Dates, Ginger, Sesame Seeds and other farm produce.

Of what inherent benefit has all the 'hustling abroad' been to southerners? Ok you have relations abroad you can stay with, you are more 'exposed'. But has that solved our problems? No

I'D rather be a content farmer with 2 cows and a reasonably peaceful existence than some guy queuing up at embassies all day trying to go out to 'hustle'.

I guess in the end, its all a matter of perspective and personal aspiration. Hustling abroad may be a thing of pride to you, but maybe not to them.

debosky:

I think you need to reread my statement, the qualifier 'inherent' was used.

Of course benefits have come - the 'trickling down' as you say it from those who have hustled abroad. Beyond that, has any profound change, any long lasting change, any inherent/imbibed change occurred?

That is the question I ask - are the southerners still not corrupt, lawless, cheating, murdering and tribalistic? These are the important questions to be answered.

How does being content with 2 cows equal waiting for manna to fall from heaven

Basic subsistence existence is what I am talking about - meeting your needs at a basic level, without any increases in wealth and the like. In my opinion, that is a higher ideal than a constant scramble for wealth with no inherent benefit except being able to spend more in the short term.

What right do you think you have to demand/require that another man strive to increase his 'standard of living'? By what measures are you describing his standard of living as being below yours? What may be important to you may not be important to him, but to assume yours are better is no different from what the white men did to Africa.

Whether I am hausa/fulani or not cannot be the subject of this discourse - your desire to 'improve' your standard of living is your prerogative. My ideal/desire to maintain my 'simple' or 'backward' standard of living is also my prerogative comprende?

yemmyse:

Oh my God!

Thinking about it, these guys don't export anything not even groundnut. They don't work in foreing lands. I get the feelings that they contribute 0% of Nigerian's Forex Income. And am quite sure there contribution to Natonal Income is also around the neighbourhood of zero.

Incredible. Pure classic case of Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop.

People that used the Tivs, Nupes, and Yorubas to win the civil war, succeeded in changing the natural demographics of Nigeria by manipulating the census, forcing many southerners into self imposed economic/political exile; and you still think they are blinded by ignorance? Think again, maybe its you and me(southerners) who are ignorant and stupid.

bilymuse:

naijaking1
To say the north use other tribe to win the war shows your lack of understanding of the complex politicking that occur during the biafra war.

The north has every opportunity to manipulate anything they want, they ve been in power over the years. But despite this, majority of their people are wallowing in object poverty, high infant mortality rate, drug abuse, disease, illiteracy ; compared to other part of the country. Even Saludo lament, "poverty is a northern phenomenon".

Compare the Ibo's; they lost the war and where deny power. Yet they fight back to become the richest, one of the most educated and enlighten Nigeria you would ever meet. That is the natural will power of the people and absolute desire to succeed against the odd.

the north is a joke, even if they rule for another 50 years, they would be worst than they are today.

bawomolo:

there are hausa immigrants in philadelphia due to it's considerably large muslim community

naijaking1:

There's always going to be some anecdotal cases if sighting Hausa people in the US. By their number, you know they are not 'hustling' like other naija people. I met most of them in college on fully funded scholarship programs, and of course they return to take up plum positions in Nigeria immediately upon graduation.

The Saudi Arabian authorities have expressed anger over the continuous stay of about 27,000 Nigerians, and urged Nigeria to do everything to repatriate them, state media reported in Friday.

Alhaji Abdullahi Tanko, Nigeria's minister of state for foreign affairs, said that his Saudi counterpart had written him a strongly worded letter threatening to reduce the country's slot for next Haji over the 27,000 Nigerians, said the News Agency of Nigeria.

"The Saudi authorities have warned that the figures (27,000) would be subtracted from the 65,000 quota allocated to Nigeria for annual pilgrimage" if the Nigerian government fails to take action, Tanko said.

With such threat on its head, Tanko said the government was doing everything possible to bring home its citizens.